New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this important and award-winning French writer. Set against the backdrop of the Algerian crisis in the summer of 1962 this is a "novel teeming with life. . Like Camus's later work, it grapples with the basic themes of man's existence: the meaning of God, the possibilities of love, the nature of mortality." Translated from the French by Herma Griffault. 408 pp.